German Police Arrest Two Islamists Planning Terror Attack on Swedish Parliament
19th March 2024
German police in the Thuringian city of Gera on Tuesday arrested two Afghan migrants planning a terrorist attack on the Swedish parliament, the Riksdag. The two men, aged 23 and 30, were collecting funds and attempting to gather weapons “to kill police officers and other people with firearms.”
“The two detainees had already made concrete preparations for a bloody attack,” German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said.
The older, identified in German media as Ibrahim M.-G., reportedly joined the jihadist terrorist organization ISKP (the Islamic State of Khorasan Province), in December of last year. Investigators told DW that the terror group had commissioned the 30-year-old to carry out the attack as a vengeance for last year’s Quran burnings in Sweden. The younger, Ramin N., is said to be a supporter of the terrorist group. Together, they had collected donations of about €2,000 for ISKP.